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White House Masking

Cognitive dissonance crisis in the Trumposphere?
President Trump Delivers Remarks At The White House On COVID-19 Testing

Hmmm…

According to the Daily Mail:

White House staff were told Monday they must wear a mask at all times when they enter or move around the building, after a coronavirus cluster started at the president’s home.

The directive went high up the chain – with the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, an influential advisor to the president, donning a mask during a Wednesday afternoon press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar also wore a mask, as did deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley.

‘Just about everybody has a face mask on,’ President Trump observed at the news conference, where the president used his own podium that he did not have to share with other officials who spoke.

So, tell me: how do those who loathe masks and love Trump reconcile this? If masks don’t have any effect at all on retarding the spread of the virus, why is everybody in the White House other than Trump (and possibly Pence) wearing a mask to work?

The Trumposphere is going to have a lot of cognitive dissonance to work through. I have every confidence that it will come through confidently. Maybe the Deep State has taken over even the White House, and the president is the only one holding out…

 

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